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April 20, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, the bipartisan Co-Chairs of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), and Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement on behalf of their 101 Member caucus:


April 12, 2024

Washington, DC — On Thursday, April 11th Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) hosted Rossford City Councilwoman Rachel Morimoto-Tinney as her guest for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Joint Address to Congress. Congresswoman Kaptur was able to hear her family’s story, like that of many Japanese-Americans who survived unjust interment during World War II.


April 4, 2024

Toledo, Ohio — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee On Defense released the following statement:


April 4, 2024

Toledo, OH — Today, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) released a final rule promulgating Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers. Incorporating feedback from consumers, producers, non-governmental organizations, and industry leaders, the final rule will increase distribution transformer efficiency and lower energy costs while supporting domestic steel manufacturing, preserving distribution transformer supply chains, and avoiding impacts to national security and electrical grid resilience and reliability.


March 28, 2024

Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement reaffirming her support for a Two-State Solution for the Israeli and Palestinian people:


In the News

April 21, 2016
By: Fatima Hussein, Cincinnati Enquirer
April 21, 2016
A West Chester widow stood in front of a sea of gray-haired retirees, mostly men, some with walkers and others wheeling oxygen tanks, who traveled across the country to demand what was promised to them.
Prepared to rally against what could be the biggest cut to the largest multi-employer pension fund in U.S. history, retired Teamsters exited bus after bus that pulled up to Capitol Hill's Western Lawn on a warm Thursday morning.

April 20, 2016
By: Christa Marshall, Tiffany Stecker and George Cahlink, E&E Publishing
April 20, 2016
The House Appropriations Committee approved an energy and water spending bill yesterday by voice vote after a meeting that erupted into a tense debate about the Flint, Mich., water crisis.
The $37.4 billion energy and water measure would slash efficiency and renewable research programs below the White House request, increase fossil fuel spending and provide a funding boost for the controversial

April 20, 2016
By: Horsetalk
April 20, 2016
A key provision which keeps the horse slaughter industry from operating in the United States has been supported by the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
The committee this week voted to adopt an amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill that would bar spending by the US Department of Agriculture to inspect horse slaughterhouses.
Such inspections are legally required in the US for horse abattoirs to process

April 20, 2016
By: Mark Drajem, Bloomberg
April 20, 2016
Inside the Beltway
House Appropriations Advances $37.4b Energy-Water Spending Bill The House Appropriations Committee approved its $37.4 billion energy and water spending bill, while foreshadowing the fights to come on emergency funding and pumping water in California’s Central Valley. None of the Democratic amendments offered were adopted. One, brought up by Rep. Marcy Kaptur, would strike policy riders related to the Clean Water Act.

April 19, 2016
By: Humane Society
April 19, 2016
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to adopt an amendment to prevent the slaughter of horses for human consumption on U.S. soil. The amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill that bars spending by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to inspect horse slaughterhouses was offered by Reps. Sam Farr, D – Calif., and Charlie Dent, R – Pa., and passed by a vote of 25-23.